1270 Case update

magpiene. · Jul 12, 2014

The Case brought $4200.00 It started nice and no smoke. But the 1000 RPM PTO was a killer for me. The buy of the day was the 1370, nicer tractor but too big for what I need it for. It brought $3600.00

1370 pwr in ne · Jul 12, 2014

That does sound really cheap for the 1370. Were they white hoods or desert sunset?

JD Seller · Jul 12, 2014

The trouble with both of those tractors is the 1000 only PTO. It just kills the resale. Around here there never where that many Case tractors but of the few that where around they never really had major repair issues.

In some areas they had the reputation of having bad transmissions but I never real saw them have that issue.

The Case 1370 has been cheap horsepower for years. A good friend bought one in 1985 that only had 1100 hours was as clean as new. He gave $8500 at a sale then for it.

The only complaint I have on them is that they are not the nicest to work on. The cab was added after they where designed. Getting to the brake valves and steering motor is not fun.

1370 pwr in ne · Jul 12, 2014

Back in 1985 i would have thought cheap horse power would have been the way to go especially if you had to borrow the money. Interest rates got to be around 18 to 20 percent.Crazy high.

JD Seller · Jul 12, 2014

1370 I would tend to agree with you but there just where not any Case dealers in many parts of the country. I can't think of the closest JI Case dealer to me. It would have been fifty miles or more away.

I think that the Power shift part of the transmission just worried some guys more than it should have. Power shifts where just different to fellow then.

Remember the more popular tractors where cheaper too. I was buying JD 4440 for under 20K that had under 2000 hrs. on them.

Then the Case and IH merger really was the end of the Case tractors. In this area the JI Case guys where let go and the IH field/territory men where kept. Some of those guys had an attitude. Tenneco would have been better off canning all of the IH field guys.

Adirondack case guy · Jul 13, 2014

JD,
You are spot on about your account of the merger and the attidude that the IH people had.
We were oldtime Case dealers and made the cut, but the Red Regiem told us we had to have new facilities and high priced computer systems etc. As stated above, interest rates were 18-22%, and borrowing money to expand when dealer profit margins were about 15% made no sense whatsoever.
We closed in the fall of 86.
Loren, the Acg.

magpiene. · Jul 13, 2014

The 1370 was white. The 1270 was desert sunset.

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